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War Quotes by Herodotus
- In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.
- In peace children inter their parents, war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children.
- And now for the vapor-bath: on a framework of three sticks, meeting at the top, they stretch pieces of woolen cloth, taking care to get…
- Civil strife is as much a greater evil than a concerted war effort as war itself is worse than peace.
- In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.
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